The Sheep's Nose, Bon Echo
101.6 cms x 114.3 cms (40 ins x 45 ins)
Signed and dated 1922 and on verso titled and incorrectly dated 1923 on the laing galleries label and on the stretcher
made in 1922
Lot offered for sale by Heffel, Vancouver at the auction event "Spring 2010 Live auction" held on Wed, May 26, 2010.
Lot 153
Lot 153
Estimate: CAD $700,000 - $900,000
Realised: CAD $1,111,500
Realised: CAD $1,111,500
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
The Art Gallery of Toronto, Group of Seven Exhibition of Paintings, May 5 - 29, 1922, catalogue #23
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The Group of Seven - Art for a Nation, 1995, traveling in 1995 - 1996 to The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, catalogue #60
Literature:
Group of Seven Exhibition of Paintings, May 5 - 29, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1922, listed, unpaginated, price $600
Lois Darroch, Bright Land, A Warm Look at Arthur Lismer, 1981, a similar work entitled The Big Rock, Bon Echo, 1922, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, listed page 420, reproduced page 120
Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven - Art for a Nation, National Gallery of Canada, 1995, reproduced page 137, listed page 318
Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman, 1995, pages 38 and 366
Robert Stacey and Stan McMullin, Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo, 1998, page 58
David P. Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, a similar smaller 1922 work entitled The Big Rock, Bon Echo, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, listed page 420, reproduced page 275
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Exhibitions:
The Art Gallery of Toronto, Group of Seven Exhibition of Paintings, May 5 - 29, 1922, catalogue #23
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, The Group of Seven - Art for a Nation, 1995, traveling in 1995 - 1996 to The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, catalogue #60
Literature:
Group of Seven Exhibition of Paintings, May 5 - 29, The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1922, listed, unpaginated, price $600
Lois Darroch, Bright Land, A Warm Look at Arthur Lismer, 1981, a similar work entitled The Big Rock, Bon Echo, 1922, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, listed page 420, reproduced page 120
Charles C. Hill, The Group of Seven - Art for a Nation, National Gallery of Canada, 1995, reproduced page 137, listed page 318
Walt Whitman, The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman, 1995, pages 38 and 366
Robert Stacey and Stan McMullin, Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo, 1998, page 58
David P. Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, a similar smaller 1922 work entitled The Big Rock, Bon Echo, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, listed page 420, reproduced page 275
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Heffel auction house for permission to use.